People Person
From the bestselling author of Book of the Year Queenie comes a story of heart and humour for 2022
-
-
3.5 • 12 Ratings
-
-
- £6.99
-
- £6.99
Publisher Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming.
People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson
Wonderful. Marian Keyes
I loved it. Sara Collins
It's as warm and infectious, as familiar and true as Queenie. Diana Evans
IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY...
YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues.
Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she's never felt more alone.
That is, until a catastrophic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they're all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming, and about the truest meaning of family you can get when your dad loves his jeep more than he loves his children.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From the author:“I’d written a whole other novel called People Person, and it was about a group of friends and the people person in question was the strong friend, because I’m always aware that the strong friend is always carrying everyone else’s s**t, but people rarely ask how they are, and that is really hard. But then also at the same time, I was having a conversation with my big half-sister. We’ve got a sick relationship. We talk every single day. My dad has nine kids so I’ve got about nine half-siblings and loads of step-siblings. I’ve got so many all the time, everywhere. I suddenly thought: ‘What would happen if something happened to me, if someone came to, I don’t know, bad me up or something?’ And my sister just said, ‘Well, we would all just get together and handle it.’ As soon as I had that conversation with her, my brain was turning. I sat down one night in the corner of my sofa. I never used to write on the sofa. I used to write in bed, but I just opened up a new document, and then at 6am in the morning, I emerged and I’d written 10,000 words of the opening of what People Person is now. I think writing the book helped me figure out my dad stuff.”
Customer Reviews
People Person
I have yet to finish this book and am not sure I will. So far it consists entirely of inane conversation between characters that I have failed to connect with. Very disappointing as I enjoyed Queenie.